Feb 7 meeting contributes to knowledge sharing agenda

The NIMR Mwanza February 7th planning meeting surfaced two areas that will influence the knowledge sharing agenda this year:

• Development and use of a respository- to archive and track all NIMR Mwanza's old and new studies.
• Mobile technology utilization - Identifying innovative ways to utilize mobile technology to support NIMR Mwanza's work.

Repository discussion highlights........

Supportive technology:

• NADA - Ready made open source web based tool that can be used for developing the repository.  
• Nesstar publisher - An Advanced Data Management (ADM) tool to use to prepare data and documentation for publication.
• DDI 2.5  -  Data Documenation Initiative an international data standard to support a research data lifecycle.
• Pentaho kettle -  An ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) that is meta-driven.

Challenges: Human resource capacity for documentation activities is lacking.
 

We'll continue sharing more about the repository development process, as well as begin discussions around potential for mobile technology use at NIMR Mwanza, so stay tuned!

Why a NIMR Mwanza Innovation Blog?

The NIMR Mwanza Sharing Innovation blog is exists to:

• Capture lessons learned from NIMR Mwanza monthly knowledge sharing meetings to promote technology innovation and data management best practices.
• Share demonstrations of innovate technology being developed to support NIMR Mwanza health research.

We look forward to sharing ideas, sparking innovation, and especially learning about what others are doing!